# vidus
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbi.ðus]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvi.ðus]

### Adjective

vidus
* masculine plural of vidu

### Noun

vidus
* plural of vidu

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

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### Verb

vidus
* conditional of vidi

## Ido
### Verb

vidus
* conditional of vidar

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *widús, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“forest, wood”). The semantic change from “forest” to “region, area (between villages)” and to “middle, between” probably comes from a situation in which the areas between villages are mostly occupied by forest (cf. the opposite change, from “middle” to “forest,” in Latvian mežs; these two words, mežs and vidus apparently swapped their meanings). Cognates include Lithuanian vidùs (“interior, middle”), Old Prussian widus (“boot stitch”); in the original sense of “forest,” also Old Irish fid (“wood, firewood, forest”), Old Norse viðr (“forest, bushes; tree, stump, log, mast; (adj.) far, wide, big”), Old High German witu, wito (“firewood, wood”), Old English widu, wudu (“forest, bushes, tree”), English wood.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

vidus m (3rd declension)
* middle, center (place situated at approximately the same distance from the edges, sides, extremities (of something))
    ezera, meža, dārza vidusthe middle of the lake, forest, garden
    pagalma vidusthe middle of the backyard
    vidus dialektsthe middle dialect (on which Standard Latvian is based)
    braukt pa ceļa viduto ride by the middle of the road
    nolikt svečturi galda vidūto drop the candlestick in the middle of the table
    sākt šķirstīt žurnālu no vidusto start leafing through the magazine from the middle
    jūras vidū mēs šūpojamies, Nāves medībām izbēgušiewe were rocking in the middle of the sea, having escaped Death's hunt
* (of time periods) middle (moment or period separated from the beginning and the end (of some process) by similarly long time intervals)
    nakts vidusthe middle of the night
    ziemas vidusthe middle of winter
    spēles, izrādes vidusthe middle of the game, of the show
    karsto dienas vidu visi zirgi pavadīja krūmos, bet arī te nebija miera no mušāmall horses spent the middle of a hot day in the bushes, but also (= even) there there was no peace from the flies
    tuvojās oktobra vidus, un bija jāsāk domāt par ziemas mītnithe middle of october was approaching, and one had to start thinking about winter quarters
* middle (the inside, the internal part (of something))
    vecmāmiņa ar īpašu nazīti izgreiza āboliem vidus un piebrēa tos ar cukuru un kanēligrandma cut the middles of the apples with a special knife and poured sugar and cinnamon on them
    tur agrāk vējš locīja vecu, līku vītolu ar izpuvušu viduthere, before, the wind would bned an old, crooked willow with a rotten middle
* (in the locative after a genitive noun, used prepositionally) in the middle of, in the midst of, amid, among
    draugu vidūamong friends
    kad Zelma bija mūsu vidū,...when Zelma was among us, in our midst,...
    strādnieku vidū jau droši vien klīst visnegudrākās baumasamong workers run probably the most nonsensical rumors
    ieguvām vairāk nekā 5000 senlietu; to vidū ir unikāls zobenswe obtained more than 5000 artifacts; among them there is a unique sword
* (of the body) middle, waist
    Emma klusēdama aplika roku ap Kristīnes viduEmma silently put (her) hand (= arm) around Kristīnes waist
    viņš gāja vēl; zāle sniedzās līdz vidumhe went further; the grass reached till (his body's) middle, waist
    tik daudz Ēriks nebija radis strādāt, tādēļ reizēm viņam iesāpējās vidusĒriks was not used to working so much, so sometimes his middle, waist would begin to hurt
* (dated sense, now usually apvidus) region, area
    aizgāja uz citu vidu dzīvothe went to live in another region, area
    Rozenberģis vēl ciemošoties divas nedēļas šai vidūRozenberģis supposedly stayed for two weeks as a visitor in that region

#### Synonyms

* (of "middle, center"): centrs
* (of "among, amid"): starp
* (of "waist"): viduklis
* (of "region, area"): apkārtne, apgabals, apvidus, novads

#### Derived terms

* apvidus
* vidējs, vidējība
* vidiene
* viducis
* viduklis
* vidutājs, vidutājība
* viduvējs, viduvējība
* vidū
    compounds:
* vidusauss
* vidusceļš
* viduslaiki
* vidusmērs
* viduspunkts
* vidusskola
* vidusspēle
* vidustece

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vidus”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *widús (probably originally meaning separated, rural) presumably from Proto-Indo-European *weydʰ- (“to divide, wooded”). Cognate with Latvian vidus, Old Prussian widus (“boot stitch”). Further akin to Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), Proto-Celtic *widus (“tree”), possibly Bulgarian Ви́дима (Vídima) (river in Central Bulgaria).

### Pronunciation

IPA: /vʲɪˈduːs/

### Noun

vidùs m (plural vĩdūs) stress pattern 4
* interior, inside
* inward

#### Derived terms

* vidurỹs (“midst”)

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vidus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500
* ↑ “vidus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
* ↑ “vidus”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025